Johannes Arnoldi Corvinus
Johannes Arnoldi Corvinus (real surname Ravens) (c.1582–1650)[1] was a Dutch Remonstrant minister and jurist.
Life
He was born in Leiden, and in 1606 was a Calvinist preacher there. Taking up the Arminian views, he was a public supporter of them by 1609, and in 1610 signed the Five Articles of Remonstrance. Subsequently, as a consequence of the Synod of Dort, he lost his church office in 1619.[2]
Works
- Christelicke ende ernstighe vermaninghe tot vrede aen R. Donteclock (1609)
- Teghen-bericht jeghens D. Francisci Gomari (1610)
- Posthumus Pacianus (1643)
- Jurisprudentia romana (1644)
- Conclusiones de ivre pvblico (1644) with Arnoldus Clapmarius, Christoph Besold, and Franciscus Rosellus
- Enchiridium; seu institutiones imperiales
Family
His son Arendt became a professor of law at Mainz.[3]